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27 and twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics,[a] and two finely polished bronze vessels, as precious as gold.

28 Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of our fathers. 29 Guard them carefully until you weigh them again in front of the leaders of the priests and Levites and the leaders of the families[b] of Israel in Jerusalem, before placing them into the storerooms of the House of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:27 A daric is a unit of weight that appears in post-exilic books. It is a Persian term, equal to the Greek drachma, about a third of an ounce. It is also the name of the standard Persian gold coin.
  2. Ezra 8:29 Literally the officials of the fathers